US Senate takes up issue of Jews who fled Arab landsMELISSA RADLER
WhenJon Ossoffwas elected to the US Senate in 2021, he became the first Jewish senator from Georgia, and the first from the Deep South since 1885. During his campaign, he declared himself “strongly committed to Israel’s security as a homeland for the Jewish people.” This commitment is i...
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However, eager to gain a foothold in southern society and politics, Benjamin never said anything remotely like this in public again. After resigning from the US Senate when Louisiana seceded from the Union, Benjamin became president Jefferson Davis’s closest adviser in the Confederate States of ...
Later in the interview, he likened Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to a Palestinian, repeating the slur he used against Biden during June’s presidential debate. There’s a reason in 2016 and 2020 that Trump never got more than 25% of the Jewish vote, Soifer said, because Jewish voters...
In 1852 he was elected to the United States Senate, the first professing Jew to achieve that high office. (David [Levy] Yulee, earlier elected from Florida, had converted to Christianity.) Benjamin was then forty-one years old. Photographs of him in this period reveal a short, somewhat ...
So why do so many Jewish voters remain loyal to a party that seems to be turning its back on them? Have they become too comfortable in their political home? Is now the time to reconsider their allegiance? Advertisement For decades, support for Israel was a bipartisan issue. US presidents ...
issue with recent comments from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the country's highest-ranking Jewish elected official. In a speech last week, Schumer sharply criticized Netanyahu's handling of the war in Gaza, warning that the civilian toll was damaging Israel's standing around the world. ...
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